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- Categories:Gender, Short Story
- Title "Doppler", In "Best Transgender Erotica, Circlet Press, ISBN
1-885865-40-6", Shapeshifter, Slow Change, Fantasy
Description
A woman meets and begins a relationship with a man who, over the
course of the story, becomes a woman. A full explanation is never
given for the metamorphosis. The MTF character is unsurprised, and
unconcerned, by the transformation, so we are left to suppose that
s/he has changed before. When asked about the transformation, s/he
offers only -- from hir point of view -- s/he has not changed; that
the transormation is only perceptible to a "stationary observer",
whence the title of the story (after the Doppler Shift: the
apparent change in frequecy of radiation emitted my a moving
source, as observed from a stationary frame of reference). Well
written, and interesting. One of two Gender Chage stories in the
collection (Mars Conjunct Venus, by Magdelene Meretrix is the
other), the rest of the stories involve trans- or
differently-gendered folks, but do not feature transformations.
originally posted by anonymous on 2002-07-18, no edits, entryid=4265
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